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June 22nd, 2026
The Woman Behind the Goddess — A Review of “The Forest of Enchantments” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
by Jana Yin
For centuries, Sita has been worshipped in India as the embodiment of strength, righteousness, and devotion. In The Forest of Enchantments ...read the full piece >>Review
June 8th, 2026
Korean Women and the Pursuit of Education and Freedom — A Review of “All Things Under the Moon” by Ann Y. K. Choi
by Joyce Bou Charaa
How did Korean women in the 1920s, a time when Korea was occupied by Japan, manage to pursue education and freedom in a traditional patriarchal ...read the full piece >>Review
May 11th, 2026
A Praise Song for Creatures Big and Small — A Review of “They Gather Around Me, the Animals” by Kunjana Parashar
by Ashish Kumar Singh
Mumbai-based poet Kunjana Parashar won the 2024 Barbara Stevens Poetry Book Award, judged by Diane Seuss, for her debut poetry book They Gather Around ...read the full piece >>Review
April 13th, 2026
Between Control and Insanity — A Review of “The Coin” by Yasmin Zaher
by Luisa Angermann
Yasmin Zaher’s debut novel The Coin (Catapult, 2024), winner of the 2025 Dylan Thomas Prize, follows a young Palestinian woman in New York City who is ...read the full piece >>Review
March 30th, 2026
A Personal Record of Anxiety and Growth — A Review of “In a Dream” by Lind Duraku
by Andrea Färber
Lind Duraku is a writer from Kosovo, whose debut collection In a Dream (Sekhmet Institute, 2025) features an array of poems, short texts and diary ...read the full piece >>Review
March 16th, 2026
We Are Not Just Ourselves — A Review of “Freshwater” by Akwaeke Emezi
by Jade Hui
Akwaeke Emezi’s debut novel, Freshwater (Grove Press, 2018), is a haunting exploration of identity, spirituality, and mental health through the lens ...read the full piece >>Review
March 2nd, 2026
The Forbidden Freedom — A Review of Sindhu Rajasekaran’s “Forbidden Desire: How the British Stole India’s Queer Pasts and Queer Futures”
by Kabir Deb
Indian civilization and its history have long been liberal about the human body, its desire, and sexual plurality, treating love and sexuality as ...read the full piece >>Review
February 2nd, 2026
Love and Its Many Tints — A Review of Juhea Kim’s “A Love Story From the End of the World”
by Jana Yin
Juhea Kim’s new book, A Love Story From the End of the World: Stories (Ecco, 2025), is a collection of ten short stories that span a spectrum of ...read the full piece >>Review
January 19th, 2026
A Woman’s Life, Out of Line — A Review of “Girls Who Stray” by Anisha Lalvani
by Amritesh Mukherjee
In a heavily gendered and surveilled society, how do you protect yourself? How do you find yourself? How do you reclaim yourself? Anisha Lalvani’s ...read the full piece >>Review
January 5th, 2026
A Plurality of Women’s Lives — A Review of “Talking With Boys” by Tayyba Kanwal
by Anushree Nande
Tayyba Kanwal is a Pakistani-American writer and Literary Director at Inprint. In her debut short story collection Talking With Boys (Black Lawrence ...read the full piece >>